エッセイ

Notes:
spin 回す；
competition  競争相手, 競争;
clips  短いビデオ

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I am very impressed by how good Japanese students are at pen spinning. Before I came to Japan, I had never seen anything like it. It seems like pen spinning started in Japan, but now it looks like the Japanese have competition. Korea has been pen spinning for years, and Thai students now have a pen spinning club with 10,000 members online. If you go to YouTube and search for pen spinners, you will get clips from other Asian countries such as China and Malaysia. These days there is even an international pen spinning competition. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
individual 個人

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Who talks more, men or women? Scientists did a study using American and Mexican college students and found that there wasn’t much difference. On average, both use about 16,000 words per day. The differences between each individual can be much bigger. For example, the most talkative men used more than 45,000 words per day while the least talkative used less than 500. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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